Olive Garden Lemon Creme Cake Copycat Recipe
We love Olive Garden but we no longer live near one which means I am on my own to try and make copycat recipes. This is a copycat recipe for Olive Garden’s Lemon Creme Cake. If you haven’t had it before you are in for a real treat, it’s divine. It’s the perfect dessert to have after this Zuppa Toscana an Olive Garden Copycat Soup Recipe.
Lemon Creme Cake Recipe
Cake Ingredients:
1 box white cake mix
3 large egg whites
1 ¼ C milk
⅓ C unsalted sweet cream butter softened
½ C sour cream
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
2 9in round cake pans
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 and spray the cake pans with pam baking spray
Using a large bowl and hand mixer, beat all cake ingredients together until combined
Divide the batter between the two pans and bake for 22-26 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean
Set aside to cool
Lemon Creme Filling Ingredients:
1 – 8oz mascarpone cheese
1 lemon, zested and juiced
1 C powdered sugar
1 C heavy whipping cream
Directions:
Using a large bowl, beat together the mascarpone cheese, powdered sugar, lemon juice, lemon zest and heavy whipping cream until combined and smooth
Place into the fridge
Lemon Crumble Ingredients:
1 ½ C dry lemon cake mix
8 tbsp unsalted sweet cream butter, melted
Directions:
Using a small bowl, combine the cake mix and the melted butter and mix with a fork to create a crumble topping
Set aside
Building the cake
Place a layer of cake onto a serving plate
Spread 1 ½ C of the filling onto the top of the cake and spread evenly
Place the second layer of cake on top of the filling
Evenly spread the rest of the filling on top of the second layer of cake
Sprinkle the crumble topping all over the top of the cake
Serve and enjoy!
More fun recipes with lemon:
Lemonade Cherry Vodka Cocktail
Blackberry Lemon Gin and Tonic
